With all the focus on the slap, the actual awards at this year's Oscars got rather overlooked. For example, the winner of the Best Animated Short Film was "The Windshield Wiper"; a downbeat name …
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Severus Snape, limerent
When it comes to literature and film, there are countless examples of characters driven mad by limerence - epic, tragic romances of soul-scouring obsessive love. Romeo and Juliet, Dante and Beatrice, …
Coffeehouse: dark empaths
Another check in at the LwL coffeehouse. It's fun to sometimes speculate about the kinds of people who make for dodgy limerent objects. It's also useful to adopt a more mocking or cynical view …
Why does someone have a crush on me?
Every now and again I receive an email from someone who has become an object of infatuation for someone they didn't mean to attract. Having come across the concept of limerence they realise that they …
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Are you a limerent?
The limerence quiz Limerence is an altered mental state of intense infatuation that many people experience in the early stages of love. This questionnaire is designed to test whether you have …
What causes limerence?
Limerence can be neatly described as an altered mental state of intense infatuation. An obvious question raised by this definition is: why does it happen? What causes it? While it's a natural …